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The upcoming Spanish EU Council presidency will push to improve monitoring of national minimum income schemes, Spain's minister for inclusion and social security José Luis Escrivá told EURACTIV, adding that the EU should move towards a minimum income directive.

Experience gained during the EU-funded PACE project shows that fuel cell micro-cogeneration could play a positive role in reducing emissions and enabling the uptake of renewables, whilst efficiently providing households and businesses with reliable and affordable electricity and heat.

Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan are four key “priority countries” the EU aims to keep close in its efforts to deal with Russia and contain China, according to an internal memo seen by EURACTIV.

With electric cars and heat pumps deployed on a massive scale across Europe, many fear blackouts risk occurring because of the additional stress these put on the local power distribution networks.

As Europe shuts down its remaining coal power plants and turns away from volatile gas for electricity generation, it is also losing key flexible power supplies that can be switched on at the last minute to keep the lights on during peak hours.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flicked the switch on Turkey's first delivery of natural gas to an onshore plant from a reserve discovered in the Black Sea, and promised to provide free natural gas for households before the 14 May elections.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol set off on 24 April for a summit with President Joe Biden at a time of questioning in South Korea of an alliance that has guaranteed its security for decades.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about German liberals renewing their call for higher fuel prices, the Czech president calling for a unified EU-US strategy vis-a-vis China, and so much more.

Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18's across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said Monday (24 April).

The Tirana Special Court of Appeal for Corruption and Organised Crime has upheld the decision in the first instance for the confiscation of the majority of assets belonging to Albanian businessman Ylli Ndroqi, including popular TV station Ora News. Ndroqi...

Milorad Dodik, the increasingly rebellious Bosnian Serb leader, floated on Sunday the idea of merging the Serb half of Bosnia with neighbouring Serbia, taking his separatist, West-defying rhetoric to new levels. After the 1992-95 conflict between Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats,...

Reform of special pension systems, one of the milestones the European Commission set so that Romania can obtain allocated EU recovery funds, is not included in the draft emergency bill aimed at reducing the already excessive deficit situation in the...

The country can join Schengen with a caretaker or stable government, but the parliament must do its job, commented the Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev on Sunday. Bulgaria has been in a spiralling political crisis for the past two and...

This week, EURACTIV’s agrifood editor Gerardo Fortuna walks you through the key issues around the controversial ban from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia on the import of agricultural goods from Ukraine.

Faced with mounting anger from farmers, the government has launched an effort to tone down the European Commission’s proposal to halve the use of chemicals and more dangerous phytopharmaceuticals by 50% by 2030. Last week, Slovenia’s Agriculture, Forestry and Food...

The son of Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said in an interview published on Saturday (22 April) that he had served in Ukraine under false documents as an artilleryman in the Wagner mercenary force, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.

The EU’s Fit for 55 Agenda only benefits the richest member states and is imposed by a European Parliament led by a “Green communism” agenda, ruling party leader Jarosław Kaczyński said in a letter quoted at a rally by Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk on Sunday.

The government has launched a public tender worth €1.48 million to purchase a platform that will manage and store information collected by bodycams and municipal video surveillance systems. The Internal Administration Ministry sent the announcement of the public tender for...

Every Spaniard will have a doctor and a school within 30 minutes of their home if ruling socialist party PSOE is elected in December, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a new election bid to bridge the gap between urban...

Tightening rules on EU political parties to prevent foreign interference could lead to parties from Ukraine and other pre-accession states being prevented from joining pan-EU political groups and "send a wrong message to the world", lawmakers have told EURACTIV.